Darrell C. Scott, who attended the meeting, said afterward according to the New York Times: “We made history today because we had meaningful dialogue with Donald Trump, and we voiced concerns that are sensitive to the African-American community”. “I can’t give you a count of the number of acts of violence”.
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“We had some language”, he said. In the extended videos, there are multiple contemporary news clips with anchors saying they couldn’t find evidence of people celebrating in the wake of the attack.
A few weeks later, Trump said former Republican nominee John McCain wasn’t a war hero, despite five-and-a-half years in a Vietnam prisoner-of-war camp where he was routinely tortured. “He is going to make our country great again and I am proud to endorse his campaign for President”. The other day he said it like, well, he doesn’t know, and now I guess he feels a little bit emboldened. He noted that, had there been the type of widespread celebration Trump was referring to, he “would have known”.
However, he said he wouldn’t know what the numbers were and he was far too busy to be watching television. “I was told it was an endorsement”, Trump said today of the meeting on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. So, we were extremely busy. I mean, the report that I did was an honest report. Trump said after the incident, “Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing”.
Gov. Christie on Monday rebutted Donald Trump’s claim that thousands of people in New Jersey had celebrated the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, using stronger terms than when he said he didn’t recall the scene described by his rival.
Marco Rubio was one of the first to proclaim that Muslims cheering in New Jersey was not true.
Trump recently told Chuck Todd of Meet the Press that he will not take back his claim.
“The problem is they’ll say ‘Trump is chicken, ‘” Trump went on.
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Trump has since accused Kovaleski of trying to retract his story and continues to insist that he saw thousands of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks on TV in New Jersey.
